8/19/2004

46,644 Years

Filed under: @ 4:13 pm

A disturbing story, courtesy of Scot:

The Star Tribune out of Minnesota was uncomfortable with the contents of an advertisement an art gallery tried to place with them and as such refused to accept it. The content? Oh, death-toll statistics from the Iraq mess - broken down into certain minutae, like years never to be lived, number of teeth, tons of flesh & bone. The newspaper claimed it didn’t adhere to their “Standards of Good Taste”, yet refused to publish such standards.

No lies, no profanity, just statistics.

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